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Former minister describes aid cut as ‘shameful’

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Former minister describes aid cut as ‘shameful’

Former minister describes aid cut as ‘shameful’

Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell describes the government’s decision to cut international aid to 0.3% of GDP as “shameful” and “wrong”.

The former international development secretary says he was “astonished” to hear about the decision, which will fund extra defence spending, insisting “there are many other ways you can raise that money”.

Report by Blairm.

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